My aunt owns property south of Houghton Lake and was offered $2,600 a year to have a cell tower placed on her property. She declined because where they wanted to place it would have been visible from their house. Sounds like she would have accepted if they placed it on the back half of the property out of view.
We rented a house on Nantucket for a few weeks this August. They have a very large wind farm about 15 miles offshore and very visible from the Atlantic side of the island. Kind of shocking to see for a day or two, but after that we barely noticed. We both said it wouldn't stop us from living on that shore.